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In the aftermath of the horrific Newtown, Conn., school massacre, Americans from all parts of the political spectrum agree that we need to pay more attention to mental health issues. Public death threats and incitements to violence must be taken seriously. The incendiary witch hunt against law-abiding, peaceful gun owners is neither noble nor effective. It’s just plain insane.

If there’s one thing you learn as former Speaker of the House,it’s how to effectively place the blame.And Nancy took advantage of that experience yesterday(snip)now you who to blame for the Newtown tragedy:Assault Magazines.I return you to now our regular Christmas Season programming:Salads.My contribution today, (snip)J. L. Hudson´s Maurice Salad(serves 6-8)2 tsp.white vinegar(snip)Ah yes! Detroit.Dewey at one time worked in all 4 buildings standing at the intersection of Larned and Griswold in the city’s Financial District(snip)PS Please pray for MOTUS’ little brother mirror who is having open heart surgery today...

Yesterday, commenter Zoe wrote the following in response to my asking what her thoughts were on the historicity and the person of Jesus Christ:
I found that the historical veracity of Jesus Or Yeshua Bar Yosef is rather conflicting evidence wise.
Some of that may have been due to the poor ability of folks to safeguard information in those days, or for important facts to be rearranged and/or omitted based on politics and the tribalism I just mentioned.
I wanted to give her the chance to expound without hijacking the thread where she and BroKen are having a fascinating back and forth

The article includes the description of the game of political charades being played in Washington along with a very funny look at the various systems of government throughout history using two cows to describe them all.

Referenced Article written by Murray in a standout performance.Post Reply

In my lifetime there have only been two U. S. Presidents who could be described as charming.
Both were great speakers; both were masters of the media; both were natural performers and both were the targets of assassination attempts.
There´s no telling what John F. Kennedy´s legacy would have been had he survived but we do know this: He

America is now poised to enjoy the fruits of what has been a demand from the left for over a quarter century: Government mandated socialized medicine.
There have always been three main arguments behind that drive:

From the moment Americans learned of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last Friday, the entire left — editorialists, columnists, broadcasters, politicians — used the occasion to promote one idea: gun control.

With most leaders, this would be a wise move: asking underlings for ideas. With Obama, it’s a way to appear as if he is Doing Something, and if the recommendations are too extreme, he can simply Blame Others and divorce himself from those recommendations

Why? Tim Scott refuses to toe the NAACP line
(Daily Caller) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn’t too excited about the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott to South Carolina’s soon-to-be-vacated U.S. Senate seat.

Over the weekend, I posited on Facebook the notion that perhaps the mother of Adam Lanza, reportedly a Catholic, might have enlisted the help of a priest in treating her son. I was particularly thinking of an exorcism. Yes, exorcism. It wasn´t a joke. The Facebook thread´s audience consisted of mostly Catholics, some of whom I´ve linked to in the past. My opinion was largely ignored and in fact, someone mildly chastised me for not distinguishing the need for an exorcist from the need for professionals who deal in mental disorders.
So I chalked it up to...

From none other than BadCatholic who writes, in part:
I understand that there is a need to talk. The experience of evil leaves a sickening void, and man and nature abhor a vacuum, especially one so terrible. So we discuss. We analyze. We have a “national conversation”...

Gun control advocates are using this horrific tragedy to justify the promotion of an agenda that they have been progressing for decades. As David Axelrod said a few years back, “Never let a tragedy go to waste.” All the while, supporters of the Second Amendment, like me, are expected to apologize, like it was our guns that were used in the crimes, or simply shut up and let the extremely vocal gun control lobbyists be the only voice in this “search for common ground.” I, for one, am not going to apologize, I’m not going to be quiet, and I’m

Tim Scott has been appointed to fill the South Carolina Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Jim DeMint and immediately the racebaiters jumped in with both feet to attack him. One of the early hatemongers was Amos Brown, a host on a religious radio station in Indianapolis, Indiana. Brown resorted to his Twitter account to claim that African American Tim Scott isn´t really a black man.

NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd feels that the crime at Sandy Hook school in Newton, Connecticut should give rise to a new "middle ground with the National Rifle Association," meaning that more gun control is somehow in the middle.

After the Pearl Harbor attack, sometime close to Christmas, the U.S. government gave thousands of Japanese-American citizens and Japanese immigrants the “4-C” designation, signifying “enemy alien.”

Inouye was one of many loyal Japanese-Americans who felt the burden of proving their loyalty to a country (their country) that held their families behind barbed-wired fences, concentrated in internment camps around the nation.

The all Japanese-American 100th Battalion, 442 Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit in American military history.

This ought to outrage, particularly when those responsible start talking about a war on women.
I suspect some of my readers are not fully aware of the impact Obama´s HHS mandate will have on non-Catholics. In fact, I suspect many non-Catholics in general are unaware. And I know many Catholics, sadly, who are clueless.
So as a public service, here´s a piece that spells out where we´re headed...

I can’t imagine anything more painful for a person than the loss of one’s child, and so I won’t pretend that I can adequately express the horror of the savage murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.